Library Stuff

Congrats to longtime friend and colleague Aaron Schmidt as he is moving out West and taking on the schools! Give ‘em heck Aaron.

Slick! Take a look at what Peter Barvoets (with the assistance of the SUNYLA Information Technology Committee) has cooked up. Good on ya SUNY Librarians! (via Jenny Levine’s Bookmarks)

It seems that a bunch of concerned librarians and students got together over pizza and soda to discuss and ask questions aboutr the issues going on at the School of Informatics at the University of Buffalo. Jim Milles, Librarian at the Law School, recorded the meeting.

Update – Jennifer E. Graham at Library Matters attended the discussion and has a recap as well as more links to more. What a large blog presence at the SOI!

Ed Vielmetti said something very important today:

“Electronic collections are often tucked away into an odd corner of a library’s web site, requiring separate logins from the main site and not integrated into the regular holdings or information presented. When you can find them, though, there’s a ton of useful stuff available that’s completely absent from the Googlesphere.”

How much money does your library or library cooperative spend on electronic databases? Does that correlate with the amount of marketing that you put into these important tools? What have you done to show off these most important assets of your Web presence? Tell us in the comments below. I’ll assume that if there are only a few comments, it’s not as important to you as it is to Ed and me.

(On a similar note, I’m noticing that the comments have been used a lot more than usual – keep them coming!)

Undergraduate Library Sorting2
Originally uploaded by benchilada.

It looks like the University of Illinois at Ubrba-Champaign is doing some book moving. Let’s caption it. Here’s mine.

“You want what volume from what journal? This is going to be a crap shoot”